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The Whole Day Through (2009)

by Patrick Gale(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0007313446 (ISBN13: 9780007313440)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Fourth Estate

review 1: I became a fan of Patrick Gale`s writing after reading his novel "Rough Music" and "Notes from Exhibition", so this title was a special choice of mine when a German bookcrosser offered me a swap. However, I was utterly disappointed from the first chapters. This novel starts like a soap opera- two middle aged former lovers, a disabled mother and a brother with Down-syndrome.....no, thank you. It`s not that I have something against topics like caring for parents or people with Down but what is lacking here is the quality of writing. Sorry but I`m not going further.
review 2: It just goes to show you can't judge a book by its cover. Looking at the front of this one, I would have probably thought....hmm, safe, middle-class, something the Women's Institute would app... morerove of.....I certainly wouldn't have expected it to broach the subject of pubic lice over muesli and chopped banana (which of course it did). Gale's excellent 'Notes from an Exhibition' is one of my fave books of all time, and a hard act to follow - not surprisingly this fell a bit short. The idea of setting the story over a single day was interesting but I felt it crowded the narrative a bit, and it was sometimes hard to work out whether events described were happening in the past or the present. I didn't think the characters were as well drawn, either. On the other hand I thought the ending was handled really well, and the 'twist' was well thought out. I would stil go on to read all his others, he's such a good writer less

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